Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1882
CityLondon, England
phantom
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
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I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.
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Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
foreign gift humor perish
Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
british-author country woman
As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
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The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
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A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.
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Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.